Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best

It’s certainly odd and I’m a little behind on Alex Zhang Hungtai’s terrifically retro rendered pieces but good stuff never grows old. This little gem is taken from the Polaris long-listed album ‘Badlands’ from 2011 but if you want to get right up to date there is a complete soundtrack by Dirty Beaches currently free styling on bandcamp. ‘Lord Know Best’ sounds like the best bits from Lemon Jelly, Mean Lady and Quiet Village, a kind of supercool remix experiment involving plenty of legal stimulants. I’m sure my dad would have been all over it had there been internet in the 1970’s. KD